Skate UK star?

Question

I'm in Bronze of the skate UK star programme and was wondering whether it was best to carry learning in a group or get private lessons ,which will i benefit fom most?

Answer 1

I would say taking private lessons, here are the pros and cons of both:

GROUP CLASSES:

Pros:

-Being able to talk to other people in your group

-Seeing how others do it

Cons:

-Not getting help with what you really need

-If you don't get it, or can't do it...then thats to bad because everyone else is ready to move on.

PRIVATE LESSONS:

Pros:

-Getting help with what you need

-Going as fast, or as slow as you need

-Being able to perfect whatever your working on

-Spending your time wisly, instead of waiting for other kids to do the move.

-Getting help when you need it, not after.

Cons:

-Not talking to other kids/people

Answer 2

The real question is where do you want to go in your skating. If you want to train to compete and really want to get better, begin private lessons.

Like that other girl said, there are pros and cons to both. I enjoy seeing how others do stuff and making friends in skating, but in group lessons you go at the pase of the slowest person and don't learn nearly as fast. Do you feel like your making progress in your skating?

I think the best thing to do (if you can afford it) is to stick with group lessons once a week then also have one private lesson a week. This is a good way to make your way to full time private lessons. This won't be as expensive as only private lessons and you will still get to have the social benefits of group lessons

happy skating!!

Answer 3

i dunno

Answer 4

i am currently at the gold level, which is takin time (darn those back spins)and at 23 i find a lot of the other people in my group lessons are at least half my age so not only is their concentration less than mine they are pretty annoying too. i started takin a private lesson fortnightly as well as group lesson weekly to get me thru this quicker and it has helped a great deal as it is 1 on1. i am hopin to make this block of 12 my last group block and will then concentrate on prob 3 private lessons and 4-5 patch times a month. my coach also told me that after gold u cant really do "group" lessons anymore.. hope this helps x